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Buhari’s wife to Patience: Don’t be afraid of jail By Eranga Isaac, +2348059233001 Hajia Aishat Buhari, wife of the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Muhammadu Buhari has replied the wife President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience Jonathan who has been campaigning that General Buhari will jail his political opponents if elected President in the March 28 election, saying Patience Jonathan needs not fear as Nigerians only want a change in the way Nigeria is being run presently . Speaking at a mega rally where she interacted with Women in Edo State Thursday, Hajia Buhari said  the PDP’s attempt to paint her husband black ith the tar of religion is a desperate attempt to hoodwink the people, saying only those who want to loot the treasury campaign with religion which is at variance with politics. She said: “each zone of the country has its peculiar problems. For me in this zone, girl-child trafficking should be considered one of

Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) | credits: igbofocus.co.uk The All Progressives Congress in Kaduna State on Tuesday said the Kaduna State government denied the party’s presidential candidate, Maj. Gen Muhammmadu Buhari (retd.), access to the Murtala Mohammed Square, Kaduna, for his North-West zonal rally ahead of the rescheduled March 28 and April 11 general elections. Our correspondent learnt that preparation for the rally, which is expected hold today (Wednesday), had reached an advanced stage when the zonal office of the party was informed that the state had refused the party the permit to use the facility. “The PDP is jittery already. They are simply afraid of the popularity strength of the APC in the state and indeed the northern part of the state,” a party official, who asked not to be named, said. The spokesman for Governor Mukhtar Yero, Malam Ahmed Mayaki neither picked calls to his mobile nor respond to a text message sent to his phone on the develo

No fewer than five persons were inured on Wednesday when some Hausa youths at Sabo area of Osogbo allegedly attacked some Yoruba living in their midst. Residents of the area told our correspondent that trouble started around 1am when some hoodlums, suspected to be of Hausa extraction, stormed residences of Yoruba in the area and attacked them. A resident of the area, who identified himself as Goke Ogunseye, told our correspondent at the scene of the crisis that some Hausa youths were allegedly smoking Indian hemp around midnight and somebody flashed a torch light on the smokers. This, he claimed, angered the hoodlums, who started vandalising shops and houses, belonging to Yoruba people in the area. But the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mrs. Folasade Odoro, when contacted on the telephone on Wednesday, said there was no crisis between Yoruba and Hausa anywhere in the state. The PPRO said, ” There was no crisis between Yoruba and Hasua. I don’t know wh

By Michael D. Evans Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped into the biggest travesty in the history of his nation. He will address a joint session of the United States Congress on Tuesday, March 3, for the third time as did only Netanyahu’s greatest hero, Winston Churchill before him. The invitation to Netanyahu has created a firestorm. The Obama administration has marched out all its big guns to attack the prime minister—from John Kerry to Susan Rice to President Obama himself. Protocol in politics is driving the controversy. Mr. Netanyahu has been accused of using this opportunity as nothing more than a gimmick to drive votes in Israel for the upcoming elections on March 17--elections which were called by the prime minister. The absurdity of this accusation is that Iran is not an election issue. Israeli elections will be decided by economic issues. Before making that move, the prime minister had dismissed Justice Minister Tzipi L

Posted by editor Abubakar Audu The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has accused a former governor of Kogi State, Abubakar Audu, who is being prosecuted at a Federal Capital Territory High Court over alleged contract scam to the tune of eleven billion naira, of ordering his security aide (a police officer) to assault one of its operatives, Haruna Ashade, for daring to take his photograph in court. A statement by the Spokesperson of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said Mr. Ashade, a member of the EFCC team assigned to cover the proceedings, “was carrying out his lawful duties when Mr. Audu’s aide descended on him”. Mr. Uwujaren continued, “The sudden realisation that his image might have been captured by the cameraman, incensed Prince Audu. Seething with rage, he demanded for the camera. When Ashade refused to hand the equipment over to the accused person, Prince Audu called on one of his aides, a police inspector, to forcefully collect the camera from Ashade and